Movie Review

The Last Winter (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Oct 10, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Sep 19, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 107 Minutes; Genres: Horror, Thriller; With: James LeGros and Ron Perlman

Image credit: Fridrik Örn Hjaltested

DEAD OF WINTER Ron Perlman in the nature-strikes-back environmental horror film The Last Winter

Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time? In The Last Winter, Larry Fessenden's B-movie Arctic chiller (it's like the 1951 The Thing with more ethereal demons), life slowly unravels for a team of oil-company workers who are out to establish an Alaskan drilling station. Are the mishaps merely accidents? Or is the tundra, unfrozen by global warming, taking its vengeance? Die-hard greenies may find this as unsettling as it's meant to be. For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling. B

Originally posted Oct 10, 2007 Published in issue #959-960 Oct 19, 2007 Order article reprints

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